Re: [FR] Enhancing footnote managment (via indirect buffer)?

[Payas Relekar]

Andrea Lazzarini <andrea.lazzarini1@gmail.com> writes:

> I've fiddled with org-edit-special and I see it has a major flaw, at least in 
> my opinion.
> It inserts all changes without keeping track of the undos, as opposed to the 
> indirect
> buffer solution, which also had the advantage of doing everything from a 
> single buffer:
> it operates as some sort of 'window' on a part of the file, rather than 
> feeling as some
> sort of out-of-the-normal operation. Aren't there other possibile use cases 
> for indirect
> buffers in org mode? Why are they considered inferior to other solutions? I 
> ask just
> for my understanding.
>
> (A combination of eldoc + org-edit-special might be rather affecting on the
> seamlessness of the workflow, but this is of course my simple personal 
> opinion).

I've been playing with org-footnote-assistance, and this is again just
another opinion, but I'm also preferring the indirect buffer. It just
puts things in better perspective.


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